Thursday, September 18, 2008

Quote du jour/Gladys Taber

If anyone now asked me what happiness is, I should say it is a September day in New England.
Gladys Taber - Stillmeadow Seasons, 1950

28º F; first heavy frost. The sky is so clear, the air so cool, the world so sparkly.







9 comments:

  1. Wow. These pictures really make me realise how much the gulf stream does for us ... I'm not expecting any frost for another month; the first heavy one, if we're lucky, shouldn't be until November ... So I should stop moaning about the rain, and make the most of the few dahlias that have managed to produce flowers this benighted summer ;)

    Joanna

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  2. Nan, the pictures are beautiful. It seems hard to believe you've had frost so early. Hope you didn'tlose too many veggies.

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  3. Is that what I've missed by travelling to a more southerly area?

    Lovely photos. Autumn is bearing down on us. Even the calendar says so!

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  4. It truly is a beautiful day--I brought in the tomatoes last night and put them on a card table by the window to ripen. No more garden.

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  5. Boy, you really got a frost up there.

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  6. Oh my gosh Nan, I didn't expect to see frost so soon. You must be way up north. What a shock, to me. Ha... I guess you are used to it. The first frosts are so pretty even though they leave quite the mess behind.

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  7. We have not quite gotten frost down here in southern New Hampshire. But it's been a bit chilly in the mornings and I've got the beans ready for the stove.
    here is a lovely little thought from another New Englander...a bit more southern however...
    "I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.-
    Nathaniel Hawthorne

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  8. Let me guess. The fifth picture is of your VW's roof/sunroof? :)

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  9. lovely photos - it's hard to imagine frost at the moment (we're just having a late burst of summer weather here) but it will be upon us very soon, no doubt.

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